Jizai Toys Powerglide KO in the Works?
Saturday, July 9th, 2011 11:50AM CDT
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Posted by Blackstreak on July 9th, 2011 @ 12:11pm CDT
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Posted by NTESHFT on July 10th, 2011 @ 9:03am CDT
amcgrath929 wrote:Dribble, dribble, dribble, PASS.
Ditto
Posted by Rated X on July 10th, 2011 @ 9:20am CDT
That guy needs a reality check with his prices. Somebody has a Cyclonus/Wheelie kit on e-bay collecting dust for 900 dollars. Ill pop on a KO but Im looking foward to the other 2 versions more...
Posted by Dead Metal on July 10th, 2011 @ 11:43am CDT
Rated X wrote:Good job !!!
That guy needs a reality check with his prices. Somebody has a Cyclonus/Wheelie kit on e-bay collecting dust for 900 dollars. Ill pop on a KO but Im looking foward to the other 2 versions more...
He does not need a reality check on his prices, I've explained before and I'll do it again even though I know you'll just ignore it.
Jizai Toys is a tiny little garage kit/designer toy studio that makes very short runs of their kits (around 70 per kit).
These kits are only sold at the Wonder festival in Japan under a one day licence from Takara.
Jizai is not interested in making a profit, all they care about is making back their investment so that they can get to business on their next project. They can only make a limited amount of these and sell them on a one per customer basis.
The prices you see on ebay are inflated and do not reflect what they actually cost. The ebay prices contain the following:
- The Wonder Festival entrance fee the seller payed
- The original price of the kit
- Commission for the people the guy payed to get multiples of the kit
- Mark up since the seller wants to make a profit
Add to that that people love these kits and that the Wheelie and Cyclonus kits are damn old and no-longer available and go for ridicules prices in auctions. And those 900 dollars is just the ultra high mark-up buy it now price, complaining about the company that makes the kits just because some ebay seller wants 800% of what he originally payed is like complaining about Hasbro's pricing when someone goes and wants to sell a 20th Any Prime for 1000 dollars.
Posted by dinogeist on July 10th, 2011 @ 8:26pm CDT
Posted by alexison on July 10th, 2011 @ 8:31pm CDT
deathy wrote:Personally,IMHO,The DOTM basic sized Powerglide is a extremly decent & size correct scaled G-1 Powerglide toy. why spend 3rd party prices when the DOTM Powerglide is cheaply priced.
Aesthetically, it doesn't work for some people, myself included.